A white marble bust of Undine

BY H. GUIRLANDT, CIRCA 1860

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A white marble bust of Undine
By H. Guirlandt, Circa 1860
With bulrushes adorning her long hair, wearing a necklace and loose gown, the lower half carved as a scallop shell, inscribed to the back H. Guirlandt, on a circular spreading socle carved with the title
27 in. (69.2 cm.) high

拍品專文

The heroine of a romance by Baron de la Motte-Fouqu, Undine was a water sylph who fell in love with a mortal and received a soul, only to be rejected by her lover, whose death she ultimately caused. The appeal of the subject was further enhanced by Albert Lortzing's popular operatic treatment of 1845.